Re: [PATCH] xfstests: fix the regex pattern in get_group_list of check

[Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 02:12:35PM +0800, Wang Sheng-Hui wrote:
> In group files, non comment line starts with a 3-digits, then followed by
> space and other characters, but no group names.

I don't follow. A group file line looks like:

003 db auto quick

Which defines the test name, followed by the group names the test
belongs to.

> The old regex in get_group_list uses the group name as part of the regex,
> and fails './check -g xfs' run:
>         Group "xfs" is empty or not defined?

Well, yes, "xfs" is not a defined group name:

$ grep xfs tests/*/group
$

If I define a "xfs" group by assigning tests to it, check runs just
fine.

$ grep xfs tests/*/group
tests/xfs/group:003 db auto quick xfs
$ sudo ./check -g xfs
FSTYP         -- xfs (debug)
PLATFORM      -- Linux/x86_64 test-2 3.9.0-rc4-dgc+
MKFS_OPTIONS  -- -f -bsize=4096 /dev/vdb
MOUNT_OPTIONS -- /dev/vdb /mnt/scratch

xfs/003  1s
Ran: xfs/003
Passed all 1 tests
$

So what check is doing looks perfectly OK to me and doesn't need
changing.

> The patch removes the pattern for group name, and thus we can trigger tests
> like "./check -g xfs" as normal.

If you want to run all the tests in a specific subdirectory regardless
of groups, then you can do it like:

$ sudo ./check xfs/[0-9][0-9][0-9]
FSTYP         -- xfs (debug)
PLATFORM      -- Linux/x86_64 test-2 3.9.0-rc4-dgc+
MKFS_OPTIONS  -- -f -bsize=4096 /dev/vdb
MOUNT_OPTIONS -- /dev/vdb /mnt/scratch

xfs/003  0s
xfs/004  0s
xfs/008  1s
.....

There's definitely better ways to do this, but conflating source tree
layout with runtime test group definitions is not it. ;)

Perhaps something like "check xfs" will just run all tests in the
xfs test dir, similar for ext4, shared, etc?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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